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and you rasmussen poll shows that only 42% bear -- a new rasmussen poll shows that only 42% -- they are passionate, are they not? >> they are. you know, in the middle of a savage recession, how can you not have anxiety for a government that over the last 10 years has not been very accountable? so it was a great session. greta: your leadership and the house. where you say it is un-american to be out there -- your leadership in the house. >> all i saw in the public today were americans. i had the opportunity to go across pennsylvania, and i have found whether you are a democrat, republican, not registered, independent that there is anxiety out there. how can you not be? we are in a savage recession, and you have lost your job or are about to. if there was ever a time to put principle over politics, it is now. all they want to do is talk to you and to hear and listen. that is what leaders are supposed to do, grab a hold of the anxiety at the moment, and we should be judged by the size of the problems we are tackling. i am more convinced than ever that we are doing the right thing with the
and you rasmussen poll shows that only 42% bear -- a new rasmussen poll shows that only 42% -- they are passionate, are they not? >> they are. you know, in the middle of a savage recession, how can you not have anxiety for a government that over the last 10 years has not been very accountable? so it was a great session. greta: your leadership and the house. where you say it is un-american to be out there -- your leadership in the house. >> all i saw in the public today were...
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ha rasmussen, -14 on the presidential index rating. patterson is getting creamed as democratic governor of new york. corzine is in trouble in new jersey. harry reid is losing by 11 points. >> of the governor of massachusetts is behind the republican by five points. sean: when you put all of that together, going on vacation -- >> the big problem is these democratic senators and congressmen who are taking these unending stuff at town hall meetings. they are looking at obama on vacation. the real thing that is going on here is this unbelievable public groundswell against the health care package and concerned about the deficit. i thought that joe lieberman really broke some new ground yesterday when he opposes adopting the health-care package as it is now. he said, do not try to do it when we have this deficit and recession. that was a string of argumentation that really pulls all of the problems together in a very interesting way. i believe the democrats are going to try to ram this through with 50 votes. i do not believe they will go for
ha rasmussen, -14 on the presidential index rating. patterson is getting creamed as democratic governor of new york. corzine is in trouble in new jersey. harry reid is losing by 11 points. >> of the governor of massachusetts is behind the republican by five points. sean: when you put all of that together, going on vacation -- >> the big problem is these democratic senators and congressmen who are taking these unending stuff at town hall meetings. they are looking at obama on...
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rasmussen has opposition to this plan. this is the one supported by the cbo down by nine. the presidential approval rating index is minus 11 for obama. >> the devil is in the details in all of this stuff. when you poll americans and say do you want healthcare reform they want healthcare reform. what happens is you go out and say we are going to contain costs and expands coverage. can you really do both of those? we are finding out it's not easy to do both of those. third rail politics. >> it is and george bush tried as he wanted to he wanted to go after social security it wasn't success. . >> why are they trying to get this through. the waters are murky. it's obvious the sharks are there. the americans don't want to dip their doe in because they are afraid it will be much worse. what is the rush? >> the question is obama -- rahm emanuel as the chicago way that he needs. he is not politically naive. inge he understands if they don't get this done and get it done quickly especially if unemployment is headed to double digits they are not going to have the ability to pass this
rasmussen has opposition to this plan. this is the one supported by the cbo down by nine. the presidential approval rating index is minus 11 for obama. >> the devil is in the details in all of this stuff. when you poll americans and say do you want healthcare reform they want healthcare reform. what happens is you go out and say we are going to contain costs and expands coverage. can you really do both of those? we are finding out it's not easy to do both of those. third rail politics....
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a new poll even from the right tilting rasmussen reports now showing not only americans overwhelmingly want a public option but that support for health care reform collapses without one. after a morning filled with reporting about the white house deciding democrats need to go it alone on reform in our fifth story the afternoon saw a briefing in which the press secretary insisted there was no plan b to bipartisanship. president obama having campaigned on a platform of affordable, accessible health coverage for all including the creation of a, quote, new public plan that would, quote, help individuals purchase new, affordable health care if they are uninsured or want new health insurance. the white house now claiming to have been caught flat footed by anger over the casual defense of a public option. even though that rasmussen poll shows 57% of all voters would find health care reform untenable without it. quoting from "the washington post", i don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their waterloo said a senior white house advisor who spoke on the condition of
a new poll even from the right tilting rasmussen reports now showing not only americans overwhelmingly want a public option but that support for health care reform collapses without one. after a morning filled with reporting about the white house deciding democrats need to go it alone on reform in our fifth story the afternoon saw a briefing in which the press secretary insisted there was no plan b to bipartisanship. president obama having campaigned on a platform of affordable, accessible...
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whose numbers are you citing, rasmuss rasmussen? >> this thing is going down. he is not getting this monster. if he is smart, he will cut it back, get rid of the controversial things, go for what he can get and say we are sleepily in debt and all these things, want to do this get the next part in 2011. >> try to ask you something which you can both agree, bob, let's talk about eunice shriver, extraordinary legacy of this woman, heading to hyannis today, tonight, the wake is tomorrow, funeral on friday. she came out of a background where no one could have predicted this woman, someone of her gender, would have changed the world to the extent she did. bob, you knew her well and you know the ken dis. what is the legacy? >> she took the personal tragedy of her sister, rosemary, and turned it into a worldwide movement that has changed the lives of tens of millions of people and she started even before special olympics. she sat outside president kennedy's was a and lobbied for the first federal investment into research into retardation and the first agency to protect
whose numbers are you citing, rasmuss rasmussen? >> this thing is going down. he is not getting this monster. if he is smart, he will cut it back, get rid of the controversial things, go for what he can get and say we are sleepily in debt and all these things, want to do this get the next part in 2011. >> try to ask you something which you can both agree, bob, let's talk about eunice shriver, extraordinary legacy of this woman, heading to hyannis today, tonight, the wake is...
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take a look at this rasmussen poll which shows a sharp improvement in how americans view the health care system. and 80% of those polled rate their coverage add good or excellent. an 11% increase in only a year. i have an idea. instead of weastding a trillion dollars on health care reform nobody wants, why not just give everybody a tax cut in and tonight the waste 101 update features some of the tiniest cities. ouzinkie, alaska, has 165 people. no scores -- stores, no gas stations, not even a stoplight but the federal government is now spending $15 million of your stimulus dollars straight to ouzinkie to rebuild the airport. that's about $90,000 a resident. and according to the nonprofit journalism group pro publica, the standing -- standing rock sioux airport in north dakota is receiving millions in stimulus money and about the same number of planes that pass through atlanta's hartsfield every 90 minutes. they go to the standing rock airport every year. tonight's great moment in liberal foreign policy brought to you by president obama. the president has repeatedly voiced his hope that r
take a look at this rasmussen poll which shows a sharp improvement in how americans view the health care system. and 80% of those polled rate their coverage add good or excellent. an 11% increase in only a year. i have an idea. instead of weastding a trillion dollars on health care reform nobody wants, why not just give everybody a tax cut in and tonight the waste 101 update features some of the tiniest cities. ouzinkie, alaska, has 165 people. no scores -- stores, no gas stations, not even a...
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scott rasmussen is right here with the latest numbers. what are the latest numbers? >> xd53% or post, 4753% oppose % support. 23% strong support. greta: the president's plan has taken quite a beating with these town halls. we have citizens going and speaking up. i know that you are the numbers guy but in it is interesting that it is in a holding pattern. >> the support was falling before all of these town halls. the frustrations bubbled over because of the health care bill and partly because of bailouts. only 22% of americans believe that congress has a good understanding of the health care legislation. right now, the beating up that you described the president as taking does not change the numbers on health care, it has just made it more visible. the president's numbers overall are ok. greta: what about whether or not people believe that the quality of care would be better under the proposal? >> 50% of americans believe the quality of care will go down if this is passed. 52% believe that a cost will go up. those are exactly the wrong direction from what the presiden
scott rasmussen is right here with the latest numbers. what are the latest numbers? >> xd53% or post, 4753% oppose % support. 23% strong support. greta: the president's plan has taken quite a beating with these town halls. we have citizens going and speaking up. i know that you are the numbers guy but in it is interesting that it is in a holding pattern. >> the support was falling before all of these town halls. the frustrations bubbled over because of the health care bill and...
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the latest rasmussen's survey asked americans if they expect taxes to go up or down or stay the same. under president obama, 6% of people said they expect a tax cut. 82% said they expect the taxes to increase or stay the same. it is sad when the vast majority of the people who voted for you do not believe you can deliver on those promises. sean: health care reform is not the only issue the democrats have lost control of. you can add cap and tax to the list as well. one democrat the slamming his own party for pushing the climate change legislation. timothy wirth later served as president clinton's clive -- climate change negotiator. he says the bill makes no sense. he said, "the republicans, in fact, are right. it is a cap and tax bill. that is what it is because they're raising revenue to do all sorts of things." you heard it here first. a democrat thinks republicans are right. the white house has build the town halls as a chance for president obama to hear from the american people. a closer look at last week's event in portsmouth, new hampshire, reveals the only reason barack obama i
the latest rasmussen's survey asked americans if they expect taxes to go up or down or stay the same. under president obama, 6% of people said they expect a tax cut. 82% said they expect the taxes to increase or stay the same. it is sad when the vast majority of the people who voted for you do not believe you can deliver on those promises. sean: health care reform is not the only issue the democrats have lost control of. you can add cap and tax to the list as well. one democrat the slamming his...
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segment tonight, our national debt will grow by trillions of dollars in the coming year, but a new rasmussen poll shows that 62% ofç americans wantç the government to cut taxes instead of increasing government spending. hallelujah. so why is obama not listening to the american people? joining us now ia columnist ben stein. çben, the numbers on these pols that are coming out, whether it is 62% who want their money back or no more spending, or presidentçç obama's approval rating, gala announced it is at its lowest in the year. if it has dipped below 50, it will be the first timeçç since war that has happened -- gallup announced at its lowest in this year. >> buying the allegianceçç of various interest groups, he is an old-fashioned chicago politician, an old-fashioned radical. there are the upper middle- income income taxpayers, and he )the votes to make sure that they remain loyal to them. it is a strategy that is a famous strategy in chicago, but will it work to get the economy out of recession? doubtful. çthey have a stimulusç packagf $787 billion. less than 50% of it
segment tonight, our national debt will grow by trillions of dollars in the coming year, but a new rasmussen poll shows that 62% ofç americans wantç the government to cut taxes instead of increasing government spending. hallelujah. so why is obama not listening to the american people? joining us now ia columnist ben stein. çben, the numbers on these pols that are coming out, whether it is 62% who want their money back or no more spending, or presidentçç obama's approval rating, gala...
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now today's rasmussen daily tracking poll shows the anointed one's disapproval rating is now higher than his approval rating. on health care, an overwhelming majority of those polled say not passing health care reform would be better than passing the democrats' plan. joining us to help us sort through all this, columnist, on national review, andy will be filling in for the great rush limbaugh. for people who don't know that microphone is really gold. >> as you well know, it is goal p--- it is gold. sean: in my first five minutes the microphone fell to the ground, oh, no, my career is over. >> i'll try not to do that. sean: you do a great job. let's talk a little bit about the polls. the president's approval rating, every reputable poll shows he's losing ground and health care is losing ground. what's your analysis? >> his personal rating is coming down to meet the unpopularity of his policies. basically it's been a few weeks since "newsweek" said he was like a god. and the more he connects with the policies the more he's a 50-50% like his predecessor, and i think most people, a lot of pe
now today's rasmussen daily tracking poll shows the anointed one's disapproval rating is now higher than his approval rating. on health care, an overwhelming majority of those polled say not passing health care reform would be better than passing the democrats' plan. joining us to help us sort through all this, columnist, on national review, andy will be filling in for the great rush limbaugh. for people who don't know that microphone is really gold. >> as you well know, it is goal p---...
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sean: the rasmussen poll shows that the american people think these deficits are out of control. more interestingly, though, his single greatest initiative, which is nationalizing health care is not garnering support. it is down 15 points in the latest polls that i've been reading. so the question is, you know, now that they're lashing out against the american people, you know, does that seem like an effective strategy? not to me. >> no. anyone on madison avenue will tell you you don't win consumers by insulting them. and that's exactly what they're doing. i think obama thinks that if he gets other people to deliver the bad news it will make him more popular. and if the congressional budget office says that the health care program is flawed and he doesn't, he doesn't think it's really going to affect him. but of course it does. he is completely off message. he's lost control, really. >> and he had to reach out to bill clinton to go save him, to work it out with kim jong il and bring back the two american hostages, and i don't know that that necessarily translates to obama. sean:
sean: the rasmussen poll shows that the american people think these deficits are out of control. more interestingly, though, his single greatest initiative, which is nationalizing health care is not garnering support. it is down 15 points in the latest polls that i've been reading. so the question is, you know, now that they're lashing out against the american people, you know, does that seem like an effective strategy? not to me. >> no. anyone on madison avenue will tell you you don't...
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but others even including jonah goldberg noted that the rasmussen poll in question was terribly flawed. it is surely partly wrong, he said because the question was not do you think bush and the neo cons were behind the attacks on 9/11. it asked did bush know about the 9/11 attacks in advance? as in did intel warn his government what was coming? which we now know it pretty much did. and dateline, nairobi, kenya. number one, best one liner. secretary of state clinton interviewed there asked about never confirmed ex-u.n. ambassador john bolton's criticism of president clinton's diplomatic success in north korea. secretary clinton replied, quote, if president obama, you know, walked on water, he'd say he couldn't swim. how to destroy john bolton in 13 words. "what do you mean homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods?" "a few inches of water caused all this?" "but i don't even live near the water." what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you. including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $119 a year. for an agent, call the number on your screen. >>> the last
but others even including jonah goldberg noted that the rasmussen poll in question was terribly flawed. it is surely partly wrong, he said because the question was not do you think bush and the neo cons were behind the attacks on 9/11. it asked did bush know about the 9/11 attacks in advance? as in did intel warn his government what was coming? which we now know it pretty much did. and dateline, nairobi, kenya. number one, best one liner. secretary of state clinton interviewed there asked about...
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governor palin who doesn't hr 3200 is from the house of representatives, not an abbreviation for harry rasmussen or something. but my point, are they -- they've gone through this once. they've made this up once and they've declared victory. so now if it turns out that through whatever means the reimbursement of end of life consultation is back in the final version of the bill, when it's actually voted upon, can't they just say, look, we killed this off but the democrats, they are demanding the death panel. they're putting the death panels back in. are they going for two bites of the same apple? >> listen, here's what i think is clear. certain republicans, in particular sarah palin being one and, listen, by the way, don't you feel that sarah palin has become the joe "the plumber" of ex-governors? she doesn't seem to want to ever go away. it is amazing. putting that aside for a second, it is clear that certain republicans like sarah palin have a clear strategy, which is to go out there and spread clear falsehoods and spread this notion that, you know, the public option would bring our health care
governor palin who doesn't hr 3200 is from the house of representatives, not an abbreviation for harry rasmussen or something. but my point, are they -- they've gone through this once. they've made this up once and they've declared victory. so now if it turns out that through whatever means the reimbursement of end of life consultation is back in the final version of the bill, when it's actually voted upon, can't they just say, look, we killed this off but the democrats, they are demanding the...
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back in 2007, two years ago, rasmussen polled voters with a similar out of left field question asking whether they believed then-president bush had gotten the inside word that the world trade towers and the pentagon were about to be hit on september 11th, 2001. we're talking hard intel as to what was coming that day, how the hijackers were going to grab those planes and fly them into buildings. how many democrats said either yes bush knew or they weren't sure whether he knew about that? not sure whether the president deliberately sat back while america's cities were attacked and thousands were killed? well, think about it. 61%, a majority. evidence that both parties hold the darkest of suspicions about the other party and its leaders. 61% of democrats back in '07 said bush either knew or might have known about 9/11 ahead of time. tonight's scary big number. up next, senator arlen specter switched parties to avoid a tough primary fight on the republican side. now he's got one on the democratic side. u.s. congressman joe sestak announced today he's going to challenge specter to face pat
back in 2007, two years ago, rasmussen polled voters with a similar out of left field question asking whether they believed then-president bush had gotten the inside word that the world trade towers and the pentagon were about to be hit on september 11th, 2001. we're talking hard intel as to what was coming that day, how the hijackers were going to grab those planes and fly them into buildings. how many democrats said either yes bush knew or they weren't sure whether he knew about that? not...